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KDF
(redirected from Kraft durch Freude)

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KDFKraft Durch Freude (German: Strength Through Joy; Hitler's name for the original models of the Volkwagen Beetle in 1938)
KDFKentucky Derby Festival
KDFKey Derivation Function (cryptography)
KDFKinetic Degradation Fluxion
KDFKinko's Document Format
KDFKentucky Division of Forestry
KDFKnocked Down Flat
KDFKlingon Defense Force (Star Trek)
KDFKunst des Fechtens (Medieval School of German Fencing)
KDFKnock Down Factor (material stress analysis)
KDFKit Definition File (Microsoft NT Embedded)
KDFKongelige Danske Fyrvæsen (Danish Lighthouse Authority/Lights and Buoys Service)
KDFKyrgyzstan Defense Force


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Spode notes that this practice fulfilled the promise of the Kraft durch Freude (Power through joy) program of the National Socialist labor organization which had aimed to increase the loyalty, contentment, and productivity of workers by offering them day-long excursions, Baltic cruises or, much less common, Italian junkets.
The holiday camp, a product of the Kraft durch Freude (KdF) - 'Strength Through Joy' - campaign, was designed to provide every German worker with the opportunity to enjoy two weeks of holiday for a nominal fee of two marks per day.
The early warning signs: decorating a room with baseball bats (but no baseballs); subscribing to such journals as Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy) and Der Kampftrinker (The Blood-Drinker), and buying a black bomber jacket and asking "you to sew new patches on the jacket (for example, the Iron Cross).
 
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